Tuesday, May 29, 2007

MSM "rejuvenating" the enemy

There is little doubt about the fact, reports from the media hurt our cause in Iraq. This article gives you a soldier's point of view:

"Hello media, do you know you indirectly kill American soldiers everyday? You inspire and report the enemy's objective every day. You are the enemy'sgreatest weapon. The enemy cannot beat us on the battlefield so all he does istry to wreak enough havoc and have you report it every day. With you and theenemy using each other, you continually break the will of the American publicand American government."We go out daily and bust and kill the enemy, uncover and destroy hugeweapons caches and continue to establish infrastructure. So daily we put awhoopin on the enemy, but all the enemy has to do is turn on the TV and getre-inspired. He gets to see his daily roadside bomb, truck bomb, suicide bomberor mortar attack. He doesn't see any accomplishments of the U.S. military (FOX,you're not exempt, you suck also)."Let's give you an example. A couple of days ago we conducted an airassault. We lifted troops into an area for an operation. The operation went welland our ground troops killed (insurgents) and took several prisoners, freed afew hostages and uncovered a weapons cache containing munitions and chemicalsthat were going to be used in improvised bombs."The next morning I woke up and turned on AFN (Armed Forces Network)and watched the nightly news (NBC). Nothing, none of that reported. But thedaily car bomb report was reported, and the file footage was not even from theevent. There was a car bomb in the Sadr City area and your news report showedold car bomb footage from another part of town from some other time."So we really set the enemy back that night but all the enemy had to dowas turn on the news and be reassured that the enemy's agenda (objective) wasstill going to be fed to the American public."We, the soldiers, keep breaking the back of the enemy. You, the media,keep rejuvenating the enemy.